These findings have important implications for theories of distributive politics and conflict in multi-ethnic societies. 3 Mark A. Kayser, ‘Trade and the Timing of Elections’, British Journal of Political Science, 36 (2006), 437-57. Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. The results, which are robust to prior referendum vote, immigration attitudes and cultural sentiment, extend across income groups and national identity strength. They have major implications for the study of institutional design and coalition politics. The research represents, to the author's knowledge, the first systematic and directional test of a range of competing theories of UK parliamentary reform, shedding light on the process of parliamentary reform over a prolonged period of Commons history, and advancing several new measures of polarization in the UK House of Commons. : British journal of political science. Does exposure to cyber terrorism prompt calls for retaliatory military strikes? This study leverages population registry data from Sweden to examine whether immigrants who live in areas with a high concentration of ethnic minorities are more or less likely to be nominated for political office. These findings suggest a second phase in research on democratic fatigue that broadens the analytical scope for the multi-faceted nature of democratic support. The study operationalizes the outcome as textual similarity of party manifestos in nineteen Western democracies from 1960 to 2016, applying a text-as-data approach and machine translation. International Scientific Journal & Country Ranking. The effect of positive framing is considerably weaker and does not strengthen welfare support in any of the three countries. The author argues that the effects of military aid are conditional upon the vulnerability of the recipient regime. These projects are often delivered to resource-rich countries, in the form of packaging access to resources and infrastructure construction, to improve China's own energy access. They identify conscious learning, rather than mere imitation or independent decision making, as the diffusion mechanism at work. These findings suggest a political logic behind these reforms based on the preferences and power of political parties and politicians. Threat of harm has the largest positive effect on perceptions of violence and support for repression. British Journal of Political Science. Elected officials attempt to influence this accountability process by explaining their behavior with an eye toward mitigating the blame they might receive for taking controversial actions. Thirdly, a nine-year panel study suggested that these effects accumulate into long-term discontent. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. British Journal of Political Science. Nevertheless, recent empirical analyses argue that constitutional amendment rules do not matter at all. It finds that there is little room for cross-border diffusion as successful parties stick to their old program. These results imply that elected officials enjoy less leeway for their actions than existing work allows, and highlight important tensions concerning the relationship between elite behavior and accountability processes. To send this article to your account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. Tolerance underlies many contemporary controversies, yet theorists and political scientists study it in strikingly different ways. This article revisits this question by studying the popularity of governments during the economic crisis. The results highlight the importance of social norms and the household's essential role as a proximate social network that increases turnout. The authors use comparative data on portfolio design reforms in nine Western European countries since the 1970s to demonstrate how the design of government portfolios changes over time. Despite a growing interest in British Political Development and the institutional changes of nineteenth-century UK politics, the academic literature has remained largely silent on this topic. This might lead voters to hold experienced governments more accountable for economic conditions. Latest issue of British Journal of Political Science. Despite extensive research on how the media affects public opinion, including studies that show how exposure to certain information can increase support of LGBTQs, there is virtually no research on how the media influences attitudes towards LGBTQs across Africa. Suspicion and the Limits of Elite Explanations, Cyber Terrorism and Public Support for Retaliation – A Multi-Country Survey Experiment, Living Together, Voting Together: Voters Moving in Together Before an Election Have Higher Turnout. First, using country-level data from a diverse set of elections, the study finds that support for more experienced governments is less dependent on economic growth. on various measures of political sophistication and civic engagement, such as voter turnout,8 3 Altman 2010; Qvortrup 2014; Schiller 2011. Description: The British Journal of Political Science is a broadly based journal aiming to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. These group-specific efforts are replaced by other legislative activities at later stages of their careers. Such policies can be justified, and challenged, on many different grounds; public debate is not conducted in terms adequate to the task. Yet citizens lack incentives to provide information when they do not expect governments to be responsive, and citizen disengagement in turn often prevents governments from providing public goods effectively. This article argues that economic concerns matter, but that they are realized through the relative gains and losses of social groups. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be sent to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. The British Journal of Political Science (BJPolS) is a broadly based journal aiming to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms. The design of the social environment inevitably makes some choices easier than others. To send this article to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Recent studies of ethnic favoritism find that presidents' ethnic peers and home regions enjoy advantages, yet cannot disentangle whether goods are provided to entire regions or co-ethnic individuals. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. An additional problem arises because Japanese electoral politics is heavily person- or candidate-centred (cf. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this journal to your organisation's collection. You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches". Yet while state repression has created anti-regime attitudes, it has decreased citizens’ contentious behavior. To better understand the conditions under which diffusion occurs, this article argues that three heuristics – availability, representativeness and anchoring – shape parties' efforts to gather information (from elsewhere), leading to differing diffusion effects. However, voters also accumulate information about governments' competence over time. This paper examines the relationship between the coming of the railroads, the expansion of primary education, and the introduction of national school curricula. The article evaluates this proposition by studying the long-term effects of state terror during China's Cultural Revolution. This article presents a normative framework for the assessment of education policies and applies it to the issue of schools’ selecting their students on the basis of religious criteria. We also randomly assigned reporters to hear from the government about how their reports were used to make real improvements to waste services. The study shows across three pre-registered survey experiments that explanations are ineffective when other speakers offer counter-explanations that focus on the official's potential ulterior motives. Likewise, in open-ended questions, Democratic Party leaders are twice as likely to say they look for extreme candidates relative to centrists; Republican Party leaders are five times as likely. Through a series of controlled, randomized experiments, this study exposed respondents (n = 2,028) to television news reports depicting cyber and conventional terror attacks against critical infrastructures in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Constitutional amendment rules have traditionally been considered the most important part of a constitution. Political Science, 1 (2006), 201–26; Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Class and Party in American Politics (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 2000). The findings indicate that only lethal cyber terrorism triggers strong support for retaliation. The proposed theory gives rise to different expectations at the domestic and transnational levels because of the distinct logic of issue competition. This article provides an overview of the literature on the relationship between terrorism and migration. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. As a result, it is not clear how often ruling parties are actually strong and capable of carrying out important functions. In conclusion, all three studies point in the same direction: economic voting decreases with time in office. Moral justifications are more likely when an issue is personally relevant, as well as when a proposition is accepted, while pragmatic justifications prevail when a proposition is rejected. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (BJPIR) is an international journal that publishes innovative, cutting edge contemporary scholarship on international relations, comparative politics, public policy, political theory and (especially) politics and policy in the United Kingdom. Contributions are drawn from all fields of political science (including political theory, political behaviour, public … People often fail to make the choices that best satisfy their preferences. Yet, in line with saliency-based theories, electoral competition mutes the diffusion of electoral strategies domestically. 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